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I've read this series before and I still don't buy part I saying this[0] is artistically just as skillful as this[1], only the artist intentionally idealized th
by ginko 1y ago
I've read this series before and I still don't buy part I saying this[0] is artistically just as skillful as this[1], only the artist intentionally idealized the depiction of the tetrarchs. To me this is clearly more primitive art.
[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Venice_%E2%80%93_The_Tetrarchs_03.jpg/800px-Venice_%E2%80%93_The_Tetrarchs_03.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Ve...
[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Statue-Augustus.jpg/800px-Statue-Augustus.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/St...
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoI'm still blown away by Roman statues whenever I see them in museums. They have the presence of living, breathing people.
- codemonkey-zeta 1y agoI also had this thought, until I then saw the Greek statues in museums that the Romans were trying to emulate!
- FranzFerdiNaN 1y agoIt’s because we have been taught over and over and over that realism matters and that the Greeks and Romans were the zenith of art and civilisation. We’re basically still living with renaissance propaganda. They could have made statues more like the one of Augustus. But art is more than realism, and it had to represent other things at this point in time.